She as died within her father’s arms,

And she died lang or the morrow.


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a. In the handwriting of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, about 1801; now in a volume with the title “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 136, Abbotsford. b. Scott’s Minstrelsy, III, 72, 1803, III, 143, 1833.

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Late at een, drinkin the wine,

Or early in a mornin,

The set a combat them between,

To fight it in the dawnin.